by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is going to great lengths to distance itself from the monikers of “LDS” or “Mormon(ism).” In a stunning display of marketing indifference (odd for them), they modified their .org site from “LDS” to...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The Book of Mormon is a marginally entertaining work of fiction. It was not particularly well-written. There are glaring chronological and anachronistic issues. It is riddled with racism. There is virtually no archaeological evidence to support it. “It seems...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
With the repeated emphasis on aspects of the “Law of Moses” in the Book of Mormon, it’s fascinating that the Bible mentions the word “circumcise” (or variations thereof) 76 times in the KJV, yet only gets a last-minute appearance toward the end in the singular verse...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
by Dan Wees | Sep 22, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith had access to thousands of books via the library, and to many local newspaper accounts of ‘Visions.’ This one is from 1825 … “[W]hen I came to the place of prayer, had kneeled down and closed my eyes, with my hands uplifted toward the heavens, I saw...
by Dan Wees | Sep 22, 2019 | Miscellaneous
As was the case with Russell Nelson’s BYU talk in September 2019, it is not uncommon for the printed version to be edited; at times large portions are removed. Here is an example of an edited speech in April 1981 by Hartman Rector, Jr. entitled “turning the hearts.”...
